On Mon, 25 Feb 2002 12:21, Thomas A. Condon wrote: > Hi, all. > > I have set up a server (running SuSE 7.3) to use dial-on-demand. ? > If I try to send email when it isn't connected it dials, but Kmail > times out first. ?When I try to resend the letter (from the outbox) it > gives me the same SMTP error that I get on timeout. ?I can clear this > by moving the letter to the inbox and back to the outbox, or by closing > and reopening Kmail. ?But there has to be an easier method of fixing > this problem.
Nope. there isn't. It's a recognised problem with pppd and dynamically host assigned IP's that afaik has no good solution. What happens is that the initial icmp trigger is using the 'wrong' IP return address. What this goobledegook means is that when you first dial out, your machine is using (say) 127.0.0.1 (localhost) as it's return address. When the connection is made, ppp is told to change it's identity and respond to 'some number'. In the meantime, everything else is trying to get back to 127.0.0.1 and is ignored. The solutions are: ping something first to establish the connection. or stop and restart the application causing initial trigger (kmail) or if you have a static ip number from the isp, OR, if the isp always sets you a specific ip, even though it's "dynamic" set that value in /etc/ppp/options (man ppp) -- http://linux.nf -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list - http://linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Archives,and Digests are located at the above URL.
